Douglas Austin Gamble

Admiral SIR Douglas Austin Gamble, K.C.V.O., Royal Navy (8 November, 1856 – 23 May, 1934) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

An officer on Gamble's staff, Bertram H. Ramsay, noted in his diary:

The Vice-Admiral and I had a set-to in his cabin about my shortness of manner at times and the War College training which he resents very much, or rather the way in which I display it. Anyhow it cleared the air and had to come … My faults are that I can't sit still and see things done in an antiquated and un-progressive way, and I must put my word in … He won't admit that a knowledge of war is the least necessary for any officers until they come to flag rank, but how they are to learn it then I don't know … Whatever the result of the war may be, it can but do good by washing out these old-fashioned ideas and bringing forward an up-to-date officers' training. At present the old school will not admit that anyone junior to them can have any ideas at all.

Gamble was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral on 8 December, 1913, vice Paget.

Bibliography

• "Admiral Sir Douglas Gamble" (Obituaries). The Times. Thursday, 24 May, 1934. Issue 46762, col A, pg. 17.

Service Records

• The National Archives. ADM 196/38.
• The National Archives. ADM 196/19.

Naval Office
Preceded by Sir Charles John Briggs	Vice-Admiral Commanding, Fourth Battle Squadron 1914 – 1915	Succeeded by Sir Doveton Sturdee